The First Peoples’ story, The Sun and the Moon by Celestine Aleck, illustrated by Cole Good beautifully conveyed the important relationship between the Sun and the Moon.

In this Coast Salish story, to help make their children happy, the Sun and the Moon make the difficult choice to part from each other. The Creator allows them to visit only at the time of an eclipse and at sunrise and sunset. The great love between the sun and the moon can be seen in the beauty of those times.

Again, our recent Science discoveries inspired yet another Art lesson. We created an Art piece that signifies the important and loving relationship between the Sun and the Moon. This was a two step process as we first used crayons to colour in our sun and moon. The following day we then applied a watercolour wash over our illustration to finish our piece.

Our love + curiosity for the Sky’s night objects has transferred over to our recent Art lessons.

We were in awe learning  about the different stars in the sky. We then became enthralled with the fact that we each have a different Zodiac sign pertaining to our birth date. We then discovered that a group of stars in the sky can form a shape of an animal, mythological creature, man, woman, or object (like a crown, compass or microscope). These star formations are called constellations. Did you know that there are a total of 88 different constellations in the sky?

We LOVED learning about our Astrological Zodiac Signs. We read, listened and viewed the different Greek mythologies pertaining to our Zodiac Sign.

Our recent Science discoveries inspired our water colour Constellation Art. You can view your son/daughter’s art on their Blogfolio.

What Zodiac sign are you?

What is the mythology meaning behind your sign?

We are learning Astronomy in Science right now and our excitement is out of this world!

We are learning about the common objects in the sky, this includes the sun, moon, stars, constellations, sunrise, sunset and the solar eclipse.

When learning about the sky’s objects we have gained an understanding of the First Peoples’ knowledge of the sky and how these objects came to be. Through the use of story telling we have listened to a variety of stories that describe how the sun, moon, stars and constellations were all created. The various stories have allowed us to reflect on different cultural customs, traditions and beliefs.

Ask your young scientist to tell you the following stories:

• The Raven Stole the Sun
• Coyote and the Sun
• The Sun and the Moon
• Coyote and the Stars (+ Constellations)

We have been exploring various Applied, Design, Skills and Technology stations in the library with Ms. Field.

Through the exploration of each station, we are able to:

The construction of our communities has been progressing quite nicely over the past week. Some communities have developed their building structures and occupations, some have their transportation routes established, and others have been refining their natural resources that surround their community.

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Today we hit the pause button on the building of our communities and instead took our work to pencil and paper. As a group, we are working on developing laws for our community.

Why are rules and laws important?

Who develops these laws?

What would our world look like without laws?